It’s Photo Day across Spring Training!
#PhotoDay is really stepping its game up. pic.twitter.com/XPzycJmIir
— Cut4 (@Cut4) February 21, 2017
Which means that players from every team in the league will need to wash behind the ears, get a hair cut, and put on their Sunday best for pictures (after all, Grandma doesn’t want to see you in that raggedy-hoodie, Billy).
But at least one of those teams – the reigning World Series Champion Chicago Cubs – are having a little fun with the routine. Emoji-based fun.
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Some of the players have reenacted (to the best of their ability) their favorite emojis and left it up to fans to guess which one they’re performing.
Here’s Carl Edwards Jr. – a guy who went from starting the season out in Triple-A to getting two of the last three outs of the Cubs first World Series Championship in over 100 years:
When you're told you have to act out an emoji for fans. #PhotoDay#GuessTheEmoji pic.twitter.com/L4GcqZiXgJ
— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) February 21, 2017
And then, of course, there’s Kyle Hendricks emoting for what many assume to be the very first time:
Guess the emoji with @kylehendricks28. #PhotoDay pic.twitter.com/HkGVPsyUYa
— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) February 21, 2017
I kid, I kid. Hendricks, who was a finalist for the 2016 NL Cy Young Award, is well known for keeping his cool on the mound – even during the biggest baseball game in history – which is why his emoji face is my favorite of the bunch.
But it’s not the last one.
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Javy Baez went out to steal some hearts with his choice:
Guess the emoji. #PhotoDay pic.twitter.com/IDNVCDDeH4
— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) February 21, 2017
And Ian Happ – the Cubs #2 prospect – got us all pondering when we’ll see him in the Major Leaguers (cough, this year, cough):
https://twitter.com/Cubs/status/834047164615569408
You can click through to the tweets to get a better look at the emojis and let the @Cubs know whose face was the closest match!
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